Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent Thursday afternoon on a social media spree, posting on Fact Social a minimum of a dozen occasions in a two-hour interval.
In a single submit, the previous president asserted that “polls clearly present” that he gained the presidential debate in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, then he cited that as justification for refusing to take part in one other debate in opposition to the Democratic nominee.
Trump offered no polling particulars to again up the declare, which runs opposite to the final consensus and instantaneous polls on his debate efficiency.
“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” he concluded in all caps within the submit.
Harris responded shortly after, reminding Trump they’ve debated solely as soon as and saying the 2 “owe it to the voters” to debate once more. Trump debated President Joe Biden in June, however Biden has since exited the marketing campaign.
If, as Trump claims, declining a second debate in opposition to Harris is the surest signal he gained the competition, the remainder of the Republican Get together didn’t get the memo. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) prompt fairly the alternative Tuesday earlier than the talk started in Philadelphia.
“You need to know who gained?” Collins requested, hypothetically. “Discover out who refuses to do a second debate.”
In earlier rambling social media posts Thursday, Trump additionally endorsed Republicans Bernie Moreno, who’s operating for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, and Kari Lake, who’s making an identical bid in Arizona.
Trump additionally shared quite a few AI images of cats all through the day, amplifying a racist and utterly false right-wing story about Haitian immigrants in Ohio abducting and consuming individuals’s pets.
It’s an odd topic for Trump to emphasise, given it’s the identical lie that landed Trump in bother throughout Tuesday night time’s debate. Harris efficiently goaded him right into a weird meltdown on the topic, which rapidly went viral.
“In Springfield, they’re consuming the canines!” Trump shouted on the time as Harris, showing to be each bemused and bewildered, listened. “The people who got here in, they’re consuming the cats. They’re consuming the pets of the people who reside there.”
ABC Information’ David Muir, one of many moderators on the debate, rapidly jumped in to fact-check the declare as baseless, citing a direct report from town supervisor of Springfield, Ohio.
